光と影 Hikari to Kage Light and Shadow

邂逅 Kaikō A Chance Encounter ~ Begegnung (lit. Meeting)

A diclonius named “Lucy” escapes from an experimental laboratory off the coast of Kamakura, which is being used as a facility to hold diclonius and use them for experiments. After killing many guards, she is shot in the head and falls into the sea; her brain damage causes her to form an innocent, somewhat infantile split personality, “Nyu”. Later, she is found by Kohta and Yuka, two cousins who are reunited after eight years to study at university, and is taken back home with them. After she breaks Kohta’s seashell, his keepsake from his younger sister Kanae who died “of an illness” eight years earlier, she runs away because Kohta gets angry with her. She does not remember anything that she has done in her entire life.

“Beatbox Bandits” “Evil Spirits of Mountain and Stream / Chimimōryō” (魑魅魍魎)

Mugen, Jin, and Fuu need to cross a border so they purchase travel passes since they don’t have any. When their passes turn out to be fake, the trio are sentenced to death. However, when the guards offer Mugen a chance to save his friends; if he can deliver an object through a forest full of bandits and return in time, Jin and Fuu will be spared.

親とはぐれた子供たち Oya to Hagureta Kodomotachi Children who were Separated from their Parents

“The Art of Altercation” “Self-Conceit / Yuigadokuson” (唯我独尊)

A singing swordsman hunts for Jin has been challenging any samurai wearing glasses he can find, accompanied by a beat-boxing duo of thugs. The question arises as to whether or not he will recognize Jin when he becomes infatuated with Fuu, for Jin has had to pawn his glasses.

彩という名の少女 Hikari to Iu Na no Shoujo A Girl Named Hikari

“A Risky Racket” “Surrounded on all Sides / Shimensoka” (四面楚歌)

While Fuu, Jin, and Mugen are going to get some soup, Fuu’s purse is stolen by a thief in the town.

思い出の約束 Omoide no Yakusoku The Promise from Recollection

“Stranger Searching” “Redheaded Foreigner / Akage Ijin” (赤毛異人)

The trio enters into an eating competition with Mugen and Jin’s swords on the line. After a mysterious man wins the eating competition, they must find a way to get their swords back and save the mysterious man. Will they succeed?

再会のメロディ Saikai no Melody The Melody of Reunion

“Artistic Anarchy” “Utter Indifference / Bajitōfū” (馬耳東風)

Fuu is targeted as a kidnapper group’s next victim. Will the others be able to save her in time?

“Hellhounds for Hire (Part 2)” “Tacit Understanding 2 / Ishindenshin sono ni” (以心伝心 其之弐)

A dice rolling contest will decide the fate of the gang warfare. Who will end up dying as a result?

“Hellhounds for Hire (Part 1)” “Tacit Understanding 1 / Ishindenshin sono ichi” (以心伝心 其之壱)

Mugen and Jin, annoyed with Fuu’s demands, disband the group at a fork in the road, each taking separate paths, unknowingly joining the ranks of two gangs involved in a conflict. Fuu is captured by yakuza and turned into a harlot and dice dealer, supervising the dice game between Mugen and Jin that ultimately reminds them of their promise and duty.

“Redeye Reprisal” “Veritable Pandemonium / Hyakkiyakō” (百鬼夜行)

Following the previous episode, a bodyguard of prefect’s son plots revenge against Mugen after he sliced off his arm in the restaurant. To do so, he convinces his large, ogre-like companion from his remote hut in the woods to kidnap Fuu.

“Tempestuous Temperaments” “Storm and Stress / Shippū Dotō” (疾風怒涛)

Fuu, a waitress falls in bad situation of being intimidated by the village prefect’s son and his guards, begs the rakish warrior Mugen to help her. Across town, skilled ronin Jin kills the prefect’s bodyguards as they prepare to kill a peasant. Jin enters the restaurant, where Mugen mistakes him for the prefect’s elite bodyguards and seeking a worthy adversary, engages him in combat. One of the prefect’s son guards sets the restaurant on fire and it burns to the ground. The local authorities capture both Mugen and Jin, who were knocked unconscious by coal gas, and sentence them to death. After escaping their execution with some help from Fuu, she asks them to join her on a quest to find a mysterious man who smells of sunflowers.

“Lunar World” “Gessekai” (月世界)

Shiki attempts to find Arcueid, but is confronted by Ciel. Ciel agrees to help Shiki find Arcueid after seeing his determination, and the two come upon Roa fighting Arcueid at the school. Despite Arcueid’s efforts, she is killed by Roa, and an enraged Shiki begins to fight with Roa. Although initially outmatched, a distraction by Ciel enables Shiki to destroy the entire walkway the two are situated on and get behind Roa, destroying him in the process. Ciel disappears, with no person in the school besides Shiki having any memory of her. Shiki then goes to the same tree he visited as a youth and thanks the same sorceress he saw, Aoko Aozaki. While waiting for Arcueid after school, Shiki sees her, and she thanks him for fulfilling his promise before disappearing.

“Misfortunate Night” “Magatsu Yoru” (凶つ夜)

Arcueid flees, and Ciel explains that Arcueid was the White Princess of the True Ancestors until Roa offered her a rose with blood that caused her to undergo a cycle where she would awaken for brief periods to kill Roa and then go to sleep once more. Shiki goes to follow Arcueid but comes upon Roa and Akiha. Roa begins to overwhelm the two until Ciel arrives, but she is dispatched. Roa retreats and Ciel regenerates her wound. At home, Shiki finds that he was adopted, and that he swapped places with the actual Shiki Tohno after he went berserk. Shiki then goes to Arcueid, and makes love to her in her apartment. When he awakens, he finds a note with the words “Bye, Bye” on them.

“Crimson Red Moon” “Ake no Kōgetsu” (朱の紅月)

As Shiki lays in bed, Arcueid visits him and asks him to take her on a date. After vising several locales, she then asks Shiki to take her to his school. In a classroom, Arcueid expresses her fear that should she go to sleep again, she will awaken and Shiki will be gone. Shiki then makes a promise with her that after the events are over, he will go on another date with her. Afterwards, they visit the tea room, and Shiki inquires about Ciel. Arcueid reveals that Ciel used to be Roa’s incarnation. The two are then attacked by Roa’s minions, but after Arcueid dispatches them, Shiki collapses. The sight of his blood awakens Arcueid’s vampire nature, and she is separated from Shiki by a sword sent by Ciel.

“Death” “Shi” (死)

Shiki, in pain due to his wound, is watched by Akiha through the night. The following day, Kohaku reveals that the Tohno family carries inhuman characteristics, and the one with those characteristics designated the head of the family. With Akiha absent, Hisui allows Shiki into Akiha’s study, where he finds a key. Trying doors throughout the house, he manages to open one that leads to a dungeon cell with “Help Me” scrawled on the walls in blood. Running outside, he recalls how there was another boy in his childhood also named Shiki and how he had killed him. Akiha, furious at him discovering this knowledge, reprimands Hisui and Kohaku.

“Origami” “Origami” (檻髪)

When Shiki returns home, Akiha collapses shortly after a conversation with him. Kohaku claims she will be fine, and Shiki stays with her through the night. The next day, he is strangely asked by Ciel to allow things to stay normal longer. At home, he sees Akiha taking blood from Kohaku’s breast. Arcueid later reveals that Roa reincarnates in the bodies of families with inhuman characteristics, leading Shiki to believe that Akiha is Roa. Later that evening, Shiki follows Akiha, watching her hair turn red. Shiki then goes with Arcueid, but after leaving her, he is attacked by a man who can see the same lines as him, and Shiki is cut across the chest. After Ciel forces the man to retreat, Shiki collapses.